Hi all, At Blender Pro, the Blender conference Brazil, I was talking to Ton, Dalai, Pablo Vasquez and other artists about a great idea for Blender: the Blender Addon/App Central.
*The problem today:* - It is hard to find an add-on if you never did before; - Even if you did it, you need to find it again: Blender.org > Download > wiki Python Scripts (add-ons?) > Script Catalog; - Some of them gives an outside link to download, like blenderartist, dropbox, etc.; - To install you need to Download and then install by Blender Add-on install button or copy straight to the add-on folder (and find this folder). Some Add-ons has folders and other files, so the install button doesn't work for it; - We never know if there is a new add-on version (Contrib and External); - We don't know which add-ons are most downloaded or even users feedback about it. Well, there is some Blenderartists threads, but nothing more "official" about it; - Every time we need to install Blender in another computer, we need to copy/download add-ons again. Some people makes use of Dropbox for it, or copy the Blender user Preferences Folder, but it is not a casual task (mainly for artists, thrust me! ;] ); *Proposal* To transform the current Script Catalog into a friendly and intuitive Add-on/App Manager inside Blender, showing votes, comments, updates, favorites, etc. and, optionally, being able to log-in and automatically install "my add-ons" in another computer/Blender installation. An image is better than a thousand words: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=24117 (initial layout proposal from the designer and my friend Allan Carvalho) Probably being inside Blender it should be more Blender colors and layout like. *Goals* - To make add-ons looks more friendly, like apps. This could attract more users and more developers; - Being able to log-in for easier management and consistence on any user machine(laptop, home and work pc), like in Google Chrome. This could work for preferences too; - To have vote and comments, increasing user participation, feedback and sharing; - To manage channes (repositories), like on Ubuntu: Official and Partner channels (to exempt Blender Foundation Servers from some "Contrib Scripts", how already is today); *References* - https://chrome.google.com/webstore - Unity Store; - Android Market. The big problem is: I canĀ“t code! So I need help, ideas, suggestions from you developers. There is more ideas that I want to discuss about it, so lets keep it warm if you like it! :) Cheers Moraes Junior - aka mangojambo Animator & 3D Artist +55 43 88133399 <http://www.oniria.com.br> _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers